Sifting through the reportage in response to Pat???s declaration ??? sparse so far, with no major media other than USA Today picking up on the AP report ??? we came across a sharp little editorial in The Virginian-Pilot: ???Thanks to the work of U.S. Sen. [and GOP presidential hopeful] George Allen, as well as U.S. Reps. Thelma Drake and J. Randy Forbes, the new $286 billion transportation bill in